The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1887-07-16

bcDtS vi ana SdpllallSts
Paid by the Land Owners and Farmer.
OF the State of Maryland During the Last
Seventeen Years
Some one WILL perhaps, be ready to
say, That's a falsehood; the fellow don't
know what he is writing about The
State has been i'll the hands of and gov
erned by Democrats for the last twenty
years, and its a cardinal principle of
Democracy that all laws shall be equal
and bear alike on ALL Very well said,
but beg to remind ali such thinkers
that there is vast difference between
theoretical and practical Democracy. 1t
is one thing to prate about the equality
OF all men and Jetfersonian principles and
legislating for the people according to
those declarations. There are plenty of
blatant demagogucs who in Fourth OF
July orations and speeches on the hust-
lings, will descant by the hour on the
beauties of free government, religious
and civil liberty, aud equal laws, that no
sooner than they get i'll the legislature
are willing to pass laws that will exempt
them and theirs, as far as they dare,
from the burden Of taxation, and fix it
Oh others. SO while in theory they pro-
fess to be -protectionists, auti-mo-
nOpollsts and revenue reformelS, in prac
tice they are as great protectionists as
any iron manufacturer in the land. Give
them a chance to be, md on the same
ignoble Observation-Disclosures
The Governor of Maryland, in his mes
sage to the Legisl Lturc of 1856, stated
there were two hundred millions 5000.
COO OOO) dollars in mortgages alone III the
State exempt from taxation, and the
amount Is Increasing. Add to this the
amount of plants, state bonds, &c,
exempt, and the amount must be vastly
greater that is exempt, SO that by est
mate of a tax of 30 cents in the 100 dol,
larS-and 1t is nearer 100 ceuts-the
amount stated at the head of this article
is too small | have gone back only
seventeen years, because it WAS the Leg
lslaturc OF 1870 $50 far as related to the
House OF DelegateS) without one dissent
ing volc 3, that passed that monster of
lniquity-eXemption of mortgages from
tazation-and shifted that burden of
taxation on to a class perhaps less able,
as a class, to bear it than any other-the
farmers of the State. They must toll on
from year to year, cOntending with
blight, storm, drought and food W neither
they make one Or six per cent, or no
per cent. at all, to provide for tho wants
OF a dependent family, while your CAPT
talsts and manufacturers are not salts
fed if their income does not reach SIX to
ten per cent. and some are not satisfied
with that.
Now, as Speaker Carlisle, of the House
of Representatives,, l. :. Congress, said
short time since, if the gislature can
make a part of the people pay the debts
of the other part in one thing, they can
do it in another, and the time is not dis
tant-as the love and greed of money
making increases-when it will be at
tempted, and under various Subterfuges
carried into practice, and there will be
no rights of the people too sacred to be
invaded. 1t will be source of loss to
man to own a small farm. And yet these
same oppressors, when the time for nomi
nations comes round, are the most out
spoken for revenue reform, civil service
reform, reform within the party, equal
distribution of the burdens of govern
ment, of any others. Farmers have it in
their power to correct many of the ex
isting evils and protect their rights, If
they will act together and assert them,